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Life: Page 177

Custom Rigs
Rantoul is cool
The Precious, Troy Huddleston and more at 8th annual TopGun Largecar Shootout and Working Class Truck Show in Rantoul, Ill., last weekend.
July 29, 2015
Troy Huddleston’s Freightliner, a past Pride & Polish national championship contender, at the event. Cast your vote daily for this year’s Truckers’ Choice championship ahead of GATS next month at this link.
Life
Trucker vlogger Palerider warns drivers: Watch out for ‘trucking experts’
In almost 23 years of trucking, Palerider says he’s seen too much misinformation, false information and “flat-out lies.” See what he’s referring to here…
July 29, 2015
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Business
CFF to launch ‘Truck Tank’ pitch contest at GATS
Got a bright idea? Commercial Fleet Financing, a financing company specializing in truck transportation, wants you to share it for a chance to win funding to get the new venture off the ground in its “Truck Tank” pitch contest.
July 29, 2015
Truck Tank
Channel 19
Another Godfrey goes after semi-truck jump record — and nails it
Daredevil Gregg Godfrey nailed a world-record-worthy semi-truck jump at Evel Knievel Days July 24, landing the rig 166 feet from the launch point.
July 28, 2015
Gregg Godfrey World record jump
Business
Ignorance is bliss, and possibly extinction
“There are 3-million-plus CDL holders in the United States, and talking loudly about how exactly they want their government to represent and restrict (or not restrict) them could be deafening if it were focused…”
July 26, 2015
So this bill is how many pages long?
Truck Stops
Love’s continues expansion with new Indiana location
Love’s Travel Stops has announced the opening of a new location along Interstate 70 in Knightstown, Ind.
July 24, 2015
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Voices
Sleep apnea: Leadership needed on the issue
“Until a formal regulation is established with clear guidelines and borders are created, we will continue to suffer with this. ” –reader Eddie Crooks on confusion at examiner, state and federal levels over sleep apnea
July 24, 2015
Business
It’s OK to tell
“Most manufacturers really do want to hear why you don’t like their product. It’s a hassle consumers shouldn’t have to go through, but how else do you expect them to make the product better?”
July 24, 2015
George Parker saves receipts for shop towels, but that’s just him.
Channel 19
Sleep apnea twilight zone in California: The strange trials of Greg Price
Price’s story illustrates that when faced with a bureaucratic mistake, followed quite clearly by bureaucratic insolence, persistence for what is right and correct and true can ultimately win the day.
July 23, 2015
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Custom Rigs
Photos: The Evel Knievel haul rig, finished!
Photos of the finished rig! The 1974 Mack FS cabover haul rig of legendary the daredevil will be staged as a traveling exhibition beginning July 23 at the Evel Knievel Days festival in Butte, Mont.
July 22, 2015
Evel Knievel Mack 1 (800×670)
Business
Great GATS Giveaway offers chance for free hotel stays, pre-paid credit cards
The Great GATS Giveaway is back this year offering registered attendees a chance to win free hotel stays, pre-paid credit cards, VIP passes, meals and more.
July 22, 2015
Click here to register for GATS, which also is registration for the Great GATS Giveaway.
Custom Rigs
Carolina small fleet scores back-to-back wins in ChampTruck racing series
Ten-truck fleet Jupiter Enterprises out of the Charlotte, N.C.-area earned its second win in the inaugural season of the Meritor ChampTruck World Series truck racing circuit this weekend in Granite City, Ill., at the Gateway Motorsports Park.
July 21, 2015
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Voices
POLL: Which weather app do you prefer to use on the road?
What is your go-to app for weather while on the road? Weigh in on why you use it.
July 21, 2015
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Business
Dances with a $52 chili dog
“Pay that much for a hot dog, it better have been touched by Kevin Costner himself.”
July 21, 2015
Santa Fe train diner
Business
Trucking’s Top Rookie Award finalists announced, winner to be announced at GATS
Overdrive’s sister publication Truckers News has announced the 10 finalists for its 2015 Mike O’Connell Memorial Trucking’s Top Rookie contest.
July 20, 2015
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Business
The screaming bears of Montana
“So, I might not have seen a tapier in Oregon, or an owl in Washington, but I sure as hell have seen the screaming bears of Montana, and I lived to tell about it. #truckingisthebestjobever”
July 19, 2015
Bear scary
Business
The 2015 Walcott Truckers Jamboree in 60 seconds
In case you couldn’t make it to the 36th Annual Walcott truckers Jamboree at the Iowa 80 Truck Stop here’s what you missed. And, for your convenience, it’s all in just 60-second package.
July 17, 2015
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Business
Boldly breaking laws others aren’t allowed to break
Wendy back on the licensing soapbox — “It is fundamentally against the law to practice any profession that requires a state-tested license without completing that license process.”…
July 17, 2015
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Four fleets represented by the pictures above will square off in the final round of the Small Fleet Championship for the title belt in their respective categories October 23, 2025, at the annual NASTC conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
Small Fleet Champ
Turnage, TFX, Oberman, Clifford Hay advance to Small Fleet Champ final round
Turnage & Sons LLC, Thomasville Furniture Xpress, Oberman Logistics and Clifford Hay Inc. -- all are mastering the fine arts of trucking-biz management in myriad ways. Two Small Fleet Champs among these finalists will walk away with the title belts at NASTC's annual conference Oct. 23 in Nashville.
Milk tanker-hauling Turnage & Sons LLC operates 29 trucks out of Tylertown, Mississippi, moving organic milk from dairies in region out to Georgia, Texas, Florida and elsewhere. Pictured above, with some of the company's equipment and logo, is father-son duo Robbie (left) and Levi Turnage, representing fourth and fifth generations in milk.
Small Fleet Champ
Turnage & Sons strikes balance with 29-truck organic milk-haul fleet
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Custom Rigs
'Light it up': Restored '90s W9, million-mile Pete 389 keep milk-haul fleet rolling
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Partners in Business
'Foreign driver capacity' hit incoming? Fleets watch, as owner-op income back on a slow rise
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